Mercury's thermoelectric dynamo model revisited

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 757-762

  Giampieri, Giacomo ^a   Balogh, André ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamo theories; Gravity field harmonics; Mercury; Planetary characteristics and properties; Planetary probes

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLANETS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC DYNAMO MODEL;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0036621365     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(02)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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